The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-12-09
THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP.
Send the STAR to friends IN the east
after YOU have read it.

Ocuu Cne OCAR 10 ITleuOS IN Cnc east
after you have read it.
Attend the meeting Of the c. L. S. G.
at the school house to night.
Call on Mr.. Phernetton and see the
Black Hills gold rings manufactured
by the King jeweler.
The Ladies Aid Society will meet at
the home of Mrs. S. E. Wilson next
Wednesday afternoon Dec. II.
Crane Bros. have inst received
fresh supply Of the finest mince-meat
in the market. Call and sample it.
Latest reports from Frank Callahan
are to the effect that he is steadily inn
proving and is now able to walk
with the aid of crutches.
No trouble about getting nice cakes
from the buckwheat flour that Fargo
e. Son are selling. Then with their
maple syrup 10 sweeten them, oh! yum,
yum!
The appearance Of the interior of the
Fergusin House is being materially inn
proved by whltewash and the judicious
use and artistic application Of paint
and paper. Two substantial cl,imneys
are also among the recent improve.
mcnts.
The dime sociable at DIR. Staniey's
on Wednesday evening. was. like al!
others given by the Ladies' Aid Society
we'll attended and highly enioyed. and
aided materially in increasing the
surplus wealth of this aourishing
society.
We have received the initial number
of Woman's Work, a monthly journal
of domestic economy, published at
Athens, Georgia. 1t is fine, large 16-
page paper, devoted, as its title i'm
plies, to woman's work. and should be
in every well-regulated household.
Subscription price only fifty cents per
year. Address T. l.. Mitchell, propri-
ctor, Athens. Georgia.
The weather clerk is rather partial
to this section of the territory. Late
advices from Eastern Dakota state that
they have experienced severe winter
weather so far with a very large-siz.
and extremely ravcnous coal famine
staring them in the face, while here
the temperature has been as mild as
May and all have an abundance of fuel
and overfowing larder.
It has been decided to have Christ
mas tree at the churchin Hot Springs
on Christmas eve. Arrangements are
being perfected to this end and an en-
tertaining program will he arranged
by the committee appointed for that
purpose, and published in due time.
Persons desiring to place gifts on the
tree are requested to notify the COM
mittee as early as possible.
Hermosa willrise Phnnix-like from
her ashes. The recent $4,000 fire at
that place only tended to stimulate pub
lie enterprise. and several new brick
blocks are already in contemplation to
take the place Of those destroyed
After al, this late scorching may have
been a blessing in disguise, furnishing
employment to large force Of work
men, who would otherwise have been
idle during the entire winter.
Our local saw-mill men had better
''look a little ont The attorney gen.
eral of the United States has been re.
J. quested to begin criminal proceedings
against one NJ. A. Upton, for cutting
timber from the public lands. He i:
accused of cutting 100000 feet OF
lumber in sections 3, a, 9 and 10, town
ship is, Black Hills meridian. Thi:
# lumber is said to be worth S24 pei
1000, and was sold to Rapid Cit,
!. parties. Upton is now said to be oper
ating near Deadwood, Oak.
:. The changing Of passenger runs OF
the Black Hills division consequent
npon the increased mileage of The com
plete extensions nort!. and west. |,a,
> given run to brand rev p,sscnse
!; crew. The conductor is Joe Beatty
who formerly lad the mixed train rnl
between Chadron and Douglas. M
Andrews, the well known passengel
: brakeman, takes the position as bag
gage man and two brakeman are take,
from the boys in the division office
The new train gives employment t.
l not less than six additional men. The
passenger runs were not proportione,
exectly as many of the boys expected
viz:the change of plan. Instead Chad
ron and Long Pine is made com
plete division, and Conductors Wrigh
and Beatty head the crews who alter
nate the run. Between Chadron an,
Selbie. north of Sturgis is another com
plete division. and Conductors Elan
ders and Elliot alternate that run. Th
north run is considerably the shorte
} and is made mainly in the day time
while the east run is mads entirely il
the night.-Chadron journal.
One of the most important transfer
OF tin property ever made in the Hill
y. was ccnsumated on Wednesday of las
Z. week. This property known as til
Dolphin sroupe Of mines. situated il
Warren Gulch, few miles west o
Custer, and embracing among other
4. the celebrated Dolphin clam. was pur
: chased by the Harney Peak Tin com
h pany, the consideration being $4,000
| 5000 to be paid within ten days fror
l the date of transfer and the balance il
six months. The Chronicle regard
this sale as being by far tlre most i'm
portant transfer Of mining propert
ever made in the Hills, SO far as its in
| fluence nnon C,,ster's welfare is cor